Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > I understood your point.  Hand-compiled and installed povray or any 
> > other is of no concern to the package manager.  Thus, it'll uninstall 
> > libpng without caring if hand-compiled povray uses it or not.  It 
> > doesn't even know hand-compiled povray exists.  Nor should it.

> "It'll break your code, *and* it *should*!"  Ah, the mindset you can get 
> away with when writing non-commercial software. :-)

  What's the package manager going to do? Scan the entire system for
executables which might be using that library? Sure, it could do that,
if you want to wait.

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                                                          - Warp

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